to experiment
23
3.2
- verb
- /ɪkˈspɛrɪˌmɛnt/
- Specialized
- Scientists often experiment in the lab to test their hypotheses about new treatments.
- begin to experiment
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Watch on YouTubeWe need to experiment and prove them and and test them.
- We need to experiment and prove them and and test them.
- And we've spent many hours experimenting with some sometimes confusing results.
- How can we in good conscience experiment on coerce pregnant women and unwilling children?
- We lived through a period where through persecution, genocide, we were experimenting on humans.
Examples
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Later, Rainer would experiment with wholly improvised dance in the group Grand Union.
Academic text (1999) -
Once the melody of the song is created, experiment with other musical aspects.
Academic text (1997) -
So some of the time you just experiment and see what happens.
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We need to experiment and prove them and and test them.
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I would like to experiment with animation.
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Gray light in the east now, and he began to experiment with his composition.
Fiction book (1992) -
We're researching, experimenting, doing science.
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But in experimenting with weightlessness, we do achieve some very interesting things.
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Editor's note: Jacques and Joseph Montgolfier were among the first to experiment with hot-air balloons.
Fiction book (2000) -
In field tests, the Arizona researchers experimented with spray nozzles attached to cotton-picking machines.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To check something to see if it works or has a problem
∞
2.8
To look carefully at something to find facts
562
2.3
To study something carefully to learn more about it
317
3.1
To study a subject carefully to find new facts
44
4.6
To examine something with a thin instrument often by touch
1
7.2
To try something to see if it works
Compounds
- Specialized
5
3.8
An experiment that keeps everything the same except one thing to compare results
- Specialized
1
4.6
A small initial test to check if a research method is possible and how much time and money it needs
- Specialized
1
9.5
An experiment that looks for changes in the speed of light caused by Earth's motion and finds none
- Specialized
1
5.1
An experiment where neither the participants nor the researchers know who is in which group
How Systematically
317
3.1
- Specialized
23
3.2
∞
2.8
∞
1.0
50
4.8
Surface Forms
Etymology
To experiment comes from the Latin word experiri meaning 'to try'. To experiment is simply to 'try' a test to discover something, which is why scientists experiment to find out if an idea is true.